Destinies of Deception

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Russia has long been a threat to our national security. Shortly after the end of World War</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>II tensions began to escalate between the United States and the Soviet Union (which was</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>centered around Russia hence we will use the two names interchangeably). The Cold War was a</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>difficult period during which conflicts occurred all over the world as we and the Russians</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>installed and supported proxy governments and armies. There was a serious threat of nuclear</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>war which was reduced thanks to the dialogue between Reagan and Gorbachev. The end of the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>communist regimes in Europe led to a favorable situation that brought optimism: the threat of a</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>future global war was over. Russia became our partner even participating in some NATO</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>training (the Partnership for Peace initiative).</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>However the Russians were not happy with this marginalized position. They were eager</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>to become a respected power again. Then Vladimir Putin appeared and began to pursue a policy</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of strong Russia. Over time he demonstrated his aim to restore the Soviet Union but in the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>form of an expanded Russia that would have a strong influence in world affairs. The war in</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ukraine is the apotheosis of his plan which was aimed at eliminating the unipolar world.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Since the beginning of the war the American media politicians and academic circles</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>have been repeating that Russia is a serious threat and our task is to eliminate it. However with</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Donald Trump's coming to power an alternative version has emerged - that we must come to an</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>agreement with Russia and understand each other. We must show that our attitude is benevolent</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and that it is not aimed at destroying Russia as a state and as a nation. This book aims precisely</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>to show what our attitude should be toward today's Russia toward Putin's Russia and to analyze the possible prospects of this attitude. To this end however we will delve deeper into Russian culture and soul focusing on Eastern Orthodoxy Russian literature and the great Russianphilosophers. Hence the book that the reader holds in their hands is not purely political in nature but also contains historical religious philosophical and cultural dimensions. The present work consists of six chapters. The first one is a historical outline that tells the story of the Russian tsardom since the time of Ivan the Terrible. As it will be shown the history of Russia after Ivan the Terrible is a history of opposition between conservative forces (who hold on to Russian tradition) and pro-European forces (who prefer to borrow practices and ideas from the West). </span></p><p></p>